TURNPIKE FEATURES AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL

The author reports how changeable message signs route traffic for optimum safety and capacity utilization on the dual-dual (12 lane) section of the New Jersey Turnpike. By confining trucks to the right and center lanes of the three-lane traveled ways, a new level of control was effected which provided for more orderly flow of traffic and the accompanying improvement in safety.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  P.O. Box 688
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Authors:
  • Weckesser, P M
• Publication Date: 1977-9

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 112-114
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 108
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Highway safety; Highway traffic control; Three lane highways; Toll roads; Traffic control; Traffic control devices; Traffic flow; Traffic surveillance; Traffic surveys; Truck lanes; Variable message signs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172499
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 3 1978 12:00AM